Improvement in wire stands



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WIRE STAND.

Patented May 2,1876.

Nassau N PETERS, FHDTO-LITMOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D c.

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WIRE STAND.

Patentgd Mgy 2,1876.

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, UNITED STATES DANIEL SHERWOOD, EDWARD P. WOODS, AND GEORGE D. DUDLEY, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO WOODS, SHERWOOD &; 00.,

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE STANDS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,894, dated May 2, 1876; application filed February 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL SHERWOOD, EDWARD P. Woons, and GEORGE D. DUD- LEY, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Wire Stand or H older, as an article of furniture, of which the followingis aspecification, reference being had to the drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are end views of our improved wire stand, showing a soap-dish and inkstand, respectively combined with the wire stand. Fig. 3 is an end view of our improved wire stand. Fig. 4 is a front view. Fig. 5 is a perspective view. Figs. 6 and 7 are front views of our improvedstand, in combination with two receptacles. The object of our invention is to make a cheap, substantial, and ornamental wire stand, to be used an article of furniture for holding various household articles. It consists in a novel arrangement and combination of parts in a wire stand, having on its sides two parallel projecting arms opposite each other, as hereinafter described, of a suflicient upward and outward inclination to hold and retain such articles as pen-holders, tooth-brushes, Ste.

The stand is constructed of legs E E, which are united, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. These legs, after being united at the top, are again separated, forming the two braces at the top, H and I, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6'; or they may be united to form one brace at the top, as shown in Fig. 7. The legs are firmly held together at the bottom by the braces G a. At any suitable height on the legs another piece of wire. is intertwisted with the legs, forming opposite and parallel arms, which may be slightly curved upward, as at A A, or bent in the form of a ring, as at B B.

These wire stands may be so constructed as to hold one or more receptacles and the parts may be so arranged that the receptacles may be readily removed; or it may be firmly attached to the stand.

In Fig. l we show a soap-dish, G, in combination with the stand. This dish rests upon the braces G G, Fig. 5, properly placed for that purpose, and may be readily removed.

In Fig. 2 we show an inkstand, D, firmly attached to the stand. At any suitable height on the legs, as F F, two pieces of wire are attached, one to each leg. These wires are united midway between the legs, and bent at right angles inward, and again separated, and

each wire is bent in the form of a semicircle, which serves to hold the inkstand.

In Fig. 6 We show a stand having two inkstands, or an inkstand and sponge holder held in the same manner. In Fig. 7 we show our stand having one such receptacle above the other, the lower one being secured as above mentioned. The upper one is secured by means of the brace at the top, which consists of the legs united and formed as before mentioned, being opened and bent in the form of a ring, upon which the flange of the receptacle rests.

What we claim as new, and of our invention, 1s

As a new and useful article of manufacture, a wire stand, having on its side two opposite parallel projecting arms, substantially as described.

DANIEL SHERWOOD. ED WARD P. WOODS. GEORGE D. DUDLEY.

Witnesses:

MARTIN L. HAMBLET, ALFRED Y. BARKER. 

